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Reading: Unit 4 Week 5 Fiction: What can we learn from family traditions? 

• Comprehension Strategy: Reread: I can listen to a story and reread to better understand something that might not make sense.

• I can provide an oral, pictorial, or written response to a text. 

• I can identify and describe what happens at the beginning, middle, and end of a story. 

• KL4a: Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck). 

• KR8: Identify specific information to support ideas in a text. (RI&RL) 

• KR2: Retell stories or share key details from a text. (RI&RL) 

• KR3: Identify characters, settings, major events in a story, or pieces of information in a text. (RI&RL)

• KR9: Make connections between self, text, and the world. (RI/RL)

Phonics: Standards

• RF.K.1a Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page

• RF.K.1d Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters

• RF.K.2b Count, produce, blend, and segment syllables. 

• RF.K.2c Blend and Segment onsets and rimes

• RF.K.2d Isolate and pronounce initial, medial, and final phonemes

• RF.K.3a Produce the correct sound for each consonant

• RF.K.3b Associate long and short sounds for vowels

Handwriting:

• Letter Focus: Writing both capital and lowercase letters correctly on the line. 

• Sentences: I can distinguish what a letter is and what a word is in a sentence. 

• L.K.1a Print many upper- and lowercase letters

• L.K.2b Recognize and name punctuation

• L.K.2c Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short vowel sounds. 

Math: Topic 9: Count Numbers to 20

• K.CC.2: Count to 100 by ones beginning from any given number (instead of beginning at 1).

• K.CC.3: Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects). 

• K.CC.4c: Understand the concept that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger. 

• K.CC.4d: Understand the concept of ordinal numbers (first through tenth) to describe the relative position and magnitude of whole numbers.

• K.CC.5a: Answer counting questions using as many as 20 objects arranged in a line, a rectangular array, and a circle. Answer counting questions using as many as 10 objects in a scattered configuration.

• K.CC.5b: Given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects. 

Science: Topic 2: Seasons & Weather

• Topic Review & Test

• I can describe the weather, tools used to measure weather, and the four seasons.

S.S.: Topic 2: Then & Now

• I can explain jobs that people had long ago.

• I can tell what school was like long ago.

Religion: 

• I can recite the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be, and Angel of God prayers.

• I can explain all the things God created.

• I can retell bible stories.

Next Generation ELA Standards (to cover by end of the year)

• KR1: Develop and answer questions about a text. (RI&RL) 16 

• KR2: Retell stories or share key details from a text. (RI&RL) 

• KR3: Identify characters, settings, major events in a story, or pieces of information in a text. (RI&RL)

• KR4: Identify specific words that express feelings and senses. (RI&RL) 

• KR5: Identify literary and informational texts. (RI&RL) 

• KR6: Name the author and illustrator and define the role of each in presenting the ideas in a text. (RI&RL) 

• KR7: Describe the relationship between illustrations and the text. (RI&RL) 

• KR8: Identify specific information to support ideas in a text. (RI&RL) 

• KR9: Make connections between self, text, and the world. (RI/RL)

• KRF1: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. 

• KRF1a: Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. 

• KRF1b: Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters. 

• KRF1c: Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.

• KRF1d: Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet. 

• KRF1e: Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.